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THE CUNNINCHAM AWARD A memory lingers-The memory oT a boy who marched on Toreign soil and never came back. A brillianT TuTure lay beTore him, a liTe s+udded wiTh high achievemenT behind. The TinesT Tlower oT young American manhood, Oliver BaTy Cunningham was one OT The Thousands who gave Their lives in The greaT war. 'l' 'l' 'l' Oliver Cunningham was an EvansTon boy. l-lis parenTs, in proud and loving remembrance, and wiTh a view Towards encouraging ThaT same spiriT which is The ToundaTion of good American ciTizenship, oTFered TourTeen years ago The TirsT Cliver BaTy Cunningham Memorial Prize. IT is given each year To ThaT man oT The graduaTing class who mosT closely approaches The ideals oT scholarship, physical TiTness, and moral inTegriTy which Gliver Treasured, and who sTands ToremosT among his Tellows in all-around manly virTues. IT carries wiTh' iT an annual sTipend of Two hundred dollars Tor Tour years. NOT only is The prize desirable in iTselT, iT is accrediTed The greaTesT honor an EvansTon man can receive. -l' 'l' 'l' The only child of Frank Simpson Cunningham and Lucy BaTy Cunningham, Oliver aTTended Lincoln School in EvansTon, and wiTh Tour years in an easTern preparaTory school com- pleTed he maTriculaTed aT Yale in l9l3. AlThough ouTsTanding Trom The sTarT among his classmaTes, his greaTesT Triumph was The winning oT The Yale prize Tor inTellecTual abiliTy, high manhood, capaciTy Tor leadership, and service To The universiTy. ' One proTessor wroTe: l-le was The kind oT a man I wanT my own son To be. + + 'l' When The war came Oliver was among The TirsT To enlisT. DeaTh came suddenly on his TwenTy-TourTh birThday. l-Ie was laid To resT by his comrades-in-arms on a genTle hillside in French Lorraine. l-le had lived Tor his ideals and Tor his counTry. 'l' + + A comrade, eyes brimming, guoTed Kiplingi E'en as he Trod ThaT day To God, So walked he Trom his birTh ' ln simpleness and genTleness, And honor and clean mirTh.
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